What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the World

Re:What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the W... by mikestew on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @12:12PM (#15961713)

and those huge fuel tanks sunk into the ground aren't going anywhere

You think I’m letting that pass without pointing out that the fuel tanks are a sunk cost? Gas stations are really convenience stores, they don’t make money on fuel. The only difference will be that we pull up in an EV to get our Big Gulp. Gas or no, that real estate will still be used to sell you chips and lottery tickets.

In the Seattle area, I know of at least three shops that specialize in VW vans, a vehicle last sold in the U. S. over 25 years ago. Three, for a vehicle that wasn’t that popular in the U. S. when you could buy them new. Yeah, yeah, hippy-wannabes and nostalgia, but the fact remains that more than one shop stays in business working on ICE vehicles that are old enough to have been doing keg stands for four years.

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Re:What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the W... by tomxor on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @09:51AM (#15969968)

> You think I’m letting that pass without pointing out that the fuel tanks are a sunk cost?

That is true, yet it makes no difference to my point.

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Re:What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the W... by mikestew on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @01:53PM (#15972563)

I’ve been waiting a whole day for someone to pick up on the pun, and this is what I get? :-) Your point stands, I was being a wiseacre.

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Re:What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the W... by tomxor on Saturday December 23, 2017 @07:56AM (#15993997)

lol, i saw that but was a bit confused to the extent of explanation you went to "sink" your pun in.

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